13m chart, late but eh...

Logan turned 13 months 9 days ago. I forgot. When people asked his age, i would say almost 1! or 1! or just turned1! and then all of a sudden, I said "He just turned one! last month..." oops. So I guess 1 is over and done and now we are onto 13 months. So.. what can he do?

Mastered skills that most can do:
use two words skillfully ("hi" "bye")- he say "UH" which is up but thats about it. He babbles all day but no real words
bends over and pick up objects- oh yes

emerging skills that half can do:
enjoys gazing at his reflection- oh gosh, ha ha. Logan LOVES dancing with his reflection in the fireplace glass. He waves to himself in the car.
holds out arm or leg to help you dress him- yes, but he has always pushed his arms out of his sleeves or pulled them out, like 7 or 8months or so

advanced skills that some can do:
combine words or gestures to make needs known- yesterday he said "Daadee UH"
rolls a ball back and forth- hes been doing that since before summer... my mom has been doing that with him since he could sit.

Im not ready for baby #2!

    After a few years of trying, IVF/ICSI, an ectopic, and then my successful frozen transfer resulted in my amazing baby boy, im not ready to go at it again. Matt has been ready for baby number 2 since Logan was born. And by born, I mean before I was even stitched up from the c-section. After years of wanting a baby, I am enjoying the fact that I have ONE. One is easy. One is manageable by me. One is not hard to clean up after. One fits in the grocery cart just fine. Im well aware that one child is easy and I love it. I also remember wanting to puke away my first trimester and sleep away my third trimester. How can my head be in the toilet all morning with a child who wants to inspect what Im doing and is demanding a diaper change and some food and uh... attention? How can I nap all day long during my third trimester with a high energy, shitty nap taking toddler boy? How am I supposed to recover from another c-section while caring for a high energy toddler, a baby, and now I have stairs in my house?!?! What if its a girl? There goes our savings and I already told Matt he will need to up my shopping budget. What it its a boy? If its a boy, Ill have a lot of  pressure to go for baby 3 in hopes of a girl. 3 boys is my limit and I am NOT going for baby 4. Im not really even sure about baby 3 and Im not ready for baby 2.
   I didnt have to worry about getting pregnant and the time for baby 2 was out of my hands for a year. Because of the c-secion, I had to wait till the babies would be born 2 or more years apart so I couldnt get pregnant until Logan was 15m old. They wouldnt approve me of it so i was safe. I told myself I would enjoy baby number 1 for a year without any thoughts of baby 2. Baby 2 was far in the distance. I could get pregnant in Novermber to make them 2 years apart. I dont want to be THAT pregnant for Logans birthday party so I wanted it a bit later. But I would call the infertility clinic when I got back from vacation and see when they wanted me to come back to do testing to be all set for my next frozen transfer. I came back Sunday. I called yesterday.
  By calling the infertility clinic, I have started the path for baby 2. I dont have to call to make an appointment until late next month and I can start going back in October so make for a winter transfer. When the nurse called me back to answer any questions I had, it was Ellen. Ellen called me to tell me I was not pregnant and it was probably ectopic and gave me a big hug (even though I was smiling because that was the most pregnant I had ever been! Im way to optimistic  ha ha) and she got to call me when I was pregnant. "Hi Kristin, its Ellen!" "Hi Ellen! I miss you" "Your ready to come back?" I told her about my wonderful son, and how awesome of a father he has and that we are ready for baby 2.
  "Yes Ellen, Im ready to come back!"

1st Birthday /family pictures

The reason we went to philly! Cousin Quentins 5th birthday party!

The party was an Angry Birds theme and something tells me, them are some really angry birds. One flew away, another set went up in flames, and many more tried to drown. Wind, fire and water. Things that no party planner ever wants to have to deal with. After the wind started the fire and the rain tried to help, the party was a go, outside still!

 I didnt get many pictures. Logan was insistent on trying to get his hands on everything and we were trying not to give him a nap. We were packed and the car was loaded with our things. We were leaving around 6. If Logan didnt nap, maybe he would sleep the whole car ride! 

 MMMMM FOOOOOOD! Logan was able to reach the kids plates at the kid table. I was keeping him from grabbing their food and their juice boxes. We found watermelon to be a huge hit. And he found chips. I let him eat the chips. Why not? Hid goody box came with a toy (its been put away for now), a cup (which he LOVES to put his french toast sticks and toys into) and the box it came in (which housed my phone yesterday when I went looking all around the house for it). 

Oh yeah, It was also Logans FIRST BIRTHDAY! I didnt bring him ant presents (considering I didnt get him anything besides clothes that he wont need till winter). Grammy Jean got him a really awesome First legos Firetruck (he loves it! The pieces are all over the floor and the fire hydrant is in the dogs water dish), Grammy Virginia gave him an outfit (very cute! Perfect for our cape cod trip coming up!) and some containers and rubber duckies, Grammy Kathy gave him some kids crayons (must draw her a picture!).

Logan made a friend quickly in Grammy Jean.

Chips!

watermelon!

He napped. He missed cake and presents because he took a really awesome nap. We were about to wake him up, when he woke on his own. Hopped in the car. An hour in, he was crying. We stopped and ran around for a bit at a rest stop. Went about another hour and a half. Stopped and got out of the car for a bit. Then boy fell asleep. He woke up as we got home at a bit after 11. He played and ran around the house and at midnight, he was showering with Matt cause he was still sticky from the watermelon. We went to bed. It was a good, long, stressfull (not as much for me as it was for poor Keira!) day.

What did we do in Philly? Friday

Everyone and their mother (no really, everyones mother was there except for mine!) was at the Rupon House turned Hotel on Friday. Becky arrived Friday morning, but by morning I mean 2 or 3am. She brought along Baby Cousin Mackenzie and her mother in law Kathy. Friday was a planned zoo day. It was not a very good day to plan for a zoo trip. It was very very hot and humid. But we persisted because, well, because! 

Brother and sister love!

thank goodness for the glass!

Anthony keeps Logan amused.

Mackenzies first zoo trip!

Love from Auntie Becky!

When we got back to Hotel de Rupon, Virginia (Brother in laws mother) was there. Father in law and cousin Joe came around 10ish pm. Thats 3+3+2+1+1+4 in one house. That made 3 grandmothers some who are also mothers but total number of moms was 6. 

What did we do in Philly? Thursday

Matt arrived late Wednesday night after Logan went to sleep. When we woke up, Daddy was here! But he had work to do. As in, a job just randomly happened to be an hour away and Matt talked them into letting him go on thursday. Why not? We had Matt bring us to target for some much needed... Uh... and then he went to work. Candy, Anthony, and Bella (Logans arranged marriage wife) picked us up and brought us to the Please Touch Museum. Candy payed for her team of kids, Bella was not free because she turned 1 a few days prior. When it was my turn, "1 adult and 1 child ma'am" "No, just adult, hes free under 1 correct?" "MMMMM  HHHMMMMMMM, hes under 1 Ma'am?" "Yes, his birthday is this saturday!" "MMMMMM HMMMMM, 1 adult, 16 bucks please Ma'am". Im not lying lady!
         There was way to much to do in such little time! Logan started off in a bad mood and wouldnt let me put him down. probably because he needed a nap before we got there but refused to take one. He perked up though pretty quickly and we had a blast.

"Hey babe, hop in!"

Where should we sit?

He climbed over this about 10+ times.

We need to work on "ladies first" and being a gentleman....

Merry go round with Daddy! He feel asleep as soon as we left.

And when he woke up, it was time to go to IHOP for cousin Quentins 5th birthday dinner. IHOP you say? IM IN!

What did we do in Philly? Wednesday

Wednesday, we did nothing. But by nothing, I mean we stayed at the house all day. And by nothing, I mean we played with lots and lots of toys. And by toys, I mean play food and (you would never have guessed!) monster trucks!

Fridge magnets are awesome! Any time we went looking for Logan around the house, he was usually here.

This chair is really really cool!

 Back to napping! 

Best place ever.